Jobs
The goal here is to create a proper "job board" that pairs open source people and projects in need design work with designers who can do those tasks. It will be a mixture of both gratis as well as paying work. A job can be relatively small task to an entire project. I think the ideal balance would be a mixture of about:
- 25% small singular tasks
- 15% new or fork of an existing project
- 60% product / feature development on existing projects
Note: this process is rough and a work in progress, please free to contribute ideas, approaches, and of course jobs :)
Submit a Job
Our job submission process is done "in the open" so if you work on an open source software project or community, feel free to submit a job to our job board. Just do the following:
Easiest:
- Click here to create a new file here on GitHub (you need to be logged in to GitHub)
- It will ask you to create a fork
- Create a fork. Don't worry about what a fork is
- Fill in the details of the form
- Change the file name to something like
2015-03-12-sticker-design-for-fun.md
- Submit your pull request
- Have a margarita or a hot chocolate
Harder (this involves downloading the code on your computer):
- running
rake job title="Job Title" role="Role Name" org="Organization Name"
- Opening the file that got generated in
jobs
and filling it in. - Submit a pull request.
- Have a margarita or a hot chocolate
Hardest (a bit tedious):
- Fork the
jobs
repo - Copy
job-template.md
into thejobs
folder and change the name - Name your copy something like
2015-03-12-sticker-design-for-fun.md
starting with date - Make sure there is a
.md
extension to the file you copied or it won't work - Fill out the fields inside the template you just copied
- Submit a pull request
- Have a margarita or hot chocolate
After those steps you will have submitted a job to the OSD job board, you rule ;)
job listings here.
View OSD"Meta" Tasks:
Anything related to improving OSD directly. Listed in order of attainability.
• Identity & Logo
OSD needs to craft an identity that is of the community and responds to the idea of open source in a clear, memorable way. Maybe that means the logo is something that is continuously iterated on, maybe it is something that has a consistent form that responds to changes in the greater community/world.
• Project listing page
What projects are currently in need of completion? The current solution has been to post each project as a github issue, which might be a good solution in the short term. It might be better to have an ongoing list where designers can post and up-vote freely.
• A space on the web
http://opensourcedesign.net redirects to Github. Would it meaningfully help the community to make a site with digests of all the repos?